Alaska streamlines legacy system for background checks
Alaska is a place of extremes: vast expanses of Arctic tundra, the highest mountain in North America, and areas that boast a monthly average temperature of -21.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
Texas lawmakers punch the clock
The Texas Legislative Council recently abandoned its punch clock for employee time-tracking software.
Illinois county puts property data on the Web
For officials in Illinois' DuPage County Recorder's Office, 28 years of successful work experience is something to be valued, not tossed away like an old shoe. Even in a mainframe.
Louisiana takes a bite out of food stamp fraud
About 4 percent of Louisiana's $650 million food stamp program is eaten up by fraud each year.
California review team wants a technology division
A massive report commissioned by California's governor recommends that the Golden State consolidate and standardize its IT operations and set up a new technology division as part of an overhaul of the state's cash-strapped government.
Western consortium's model smokes out fire behavior
The Desert Research Institute, a Reno, Nev., group that's part of the University and Community College System of Nevada, is using modeling software to answer questions about fire and smoke behavior.
Jihadist files posted on an Arkansas server
An Arkansas government File Transfer Protocol server wouldn't seem to top the list of likely terrorist targets, but that didn't stop it from getting walloped this month by terrorist sympathizers, who loaded it with online videos of Osama bin Laden and other multimedia jihadist materials.
San Antonio slam-dunks Final Four security
A souped-up tractor-trailer wove a security net around San Antonio during the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Final Four games in April.
Group loads jihadist files onto Arkansas FTP server
No sensitive data affected when Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department's FTP site is attacked.
IT vendors look for silver lining in state market
To roughly paraphrase the Weather Girls' 1980s hit, it's raining everything but money for state governments.
Minn. has online Rx for the high cost of drugs
Minnesota has set up a prescription Web site, at <a href= "http://www.MinnesotaRXConnect.com">www.MinnesotaRXConnect.com</a>, that walks residents through ordering lower-cost medicines from Canadian pharmacies.
Basics keeps middle schoolers in- and online
The days of kids throwing a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, an apple and a bag of chips into a backpack, slinging it over their shoulders and blithely skipping out the door to school are changing. Some states are adding something a bit more substantial to student backpacks: notebook PCs.
State CIOs seek more funding for cybersecurity
It was a fly-in, not a love-in, but there were still plenty of encounters between 15 state CIOs and Capitol Hill legislators this month at the fourth annual fly-in sponsored by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers.
Program at nation's major ports tests ways to secure containers
While Seattle sleeps, port officials in Puget Sound are on their second cup of double-jolt espresso, working to keep cargo safe in the nation's third-largest center for containerized imports and exports.
Points of contact
On Sept. 11, 2001, all terrorism became local. State and local governments remain the front-line soldiers in the war against terror on domestic fronts.
Oregon county dodges viruses
Clackamas County, Ore., had a near miss with some computer viruses a few months ago.
The secret life of CIOs
A CIO offers tips to industry for unraveling the 'mysteries of the CIO code.'
State CIOs take flight
Homeland security, privacy, security and wireless are among the topics mulled by state CIOs at annual Capitol Hill session.
Census Bureau now counts on SAN storage
A 4-year-old storage area network is keeping up with 4.6T of workaday data for 1,500 employees at the Census Bureau and soon will double its capacity.
San Antonio slam-dunks security
A high-tech trailer becomes security monitoring command center during Final Four.
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